"Grandpa once said I was a genius, born extraordinary, and that I would definitely leave the Great Wilderness one day. It seems he was right, I think I'm a genius too."
Xiao Shi's large, bright eyes were filled with satisfaction as he nodded slightly to himself. Then, with his little hands clasped behind his back, he walked towards the shimmering white bone fragment on the ground.
As the saying goes, small kids can be very clever, and it was certainly true in his case. The little fellow's self-admiration made him seem like a little adult, provided you ignored his completely bare body.
Ever since he jumped out of the lava lake, he hadn't worn any clothes. Later, he was chased around by the little red bird and never had the chance to make any animal skin clothing.
"What is this?"
Xiao Shi rubbed the white bone embedded in the ground with his palm. It didn't seem like bone; it felt like jade, smooth and warm, but also extremely hard. He tried to squeeze it with force, but it didn't budge, not a single crack appeared.
He knew that with one arm, he could now exert a force of 120,000 jin. He could easily crush a boulder, but this square piece of white bone was impossible for him to move.
"No wonder that centipede was so frantic."
"Eee-yah, up～!"
Xiao Shi squatted on the ground, grabbing the cubic bone fragment. Divine light billowed from him as he exerted all his strength, trying to pry it out. After a long while, he went "plop," sitting down on the ground, exhausted and rolling his eyes.
The entire depression in the ground was green, appearing as a single piece. The cubic bone fragment was embedded within, as if it had grown there. Despite his immense strength, the bone fragment remained completely still.
"Damn it, what is this thing? Once I get you out, I'm definitely burying you in a dung pit!"
Xiao Shi was utterly speechless. It was clearly a good thing, but he could only look at it, unable to take it. This was a fatal blow to the heart of a young rascal.
"I'll beat you to death!"
The more Xiao Shi looked at the white bone, the more displeased he became. Light flickered on his small, fair fists, and six ancient symbols appeared, clearly a direct use of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist!
Boom
A furious punch landed squarely on the bone fragment. However, a strange scene unfolded. His fist intent seemed to resonate with the white bone fragment. With a single blow, the six symbols transformed into six points of light and vanished into several faces of the bone fragment, even the bottom one wasn't spared.
All six symbols acted on the bone fragment, instantly making it shine brilliantly, dazzlingly, and flowing with radiant light rain.
"It actually shares the same origin as the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist!" Xiao Shi was shocked. Although he didn't know why he knew this peerless fist technique, he knew one thing: anything related to "reincarnation" was extraordinary.
The six-sided, pure white bone fragment let out a crisp crack. It opened. The top side was a lid that automatically detached from the bone fragment, revealing the interior.
Xiao Shi's big eyes fluttered. The white bone fragment, like a treasure box, was filled with radiant light, almost like a huge spatial artifact. It seemed small, and wasn't large, but the inside gave a very empty feeling, like the night sky, dotted with stars.
"A treasure map?" Xiao Shi was surprised. When he was young, Shi Yunfeng often told him all sorts of stories, and what he loved most were the treasures of the Great Wilderness.
Inside the white bone box were a few pieces of animal skin, very old, carrying dry bloodstains, he didn't know how many years they had existed. But the moment he reached out to touch them, the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist within Xiao Shi began to operate on its own, and various chanting sounds came out, causing one of the animal skins to shine brightly.
A strange look appeared on Xiao Shi's pretty little face. He took out the animal skin and looked closely, a few ancient characters caught his eye!
"Six Paths of Reincarnation? A cultivation technique?" Xiao Shi didn't really understand. Growing up, he'd never encountered any cultivation techniques, nor did he know how to cultivate. He'd had to figure everything out on his own, which was why he'd ended up going astray.
"Whatever, I'll memorize it first."
Xiao Shi's expression was serious. He looked at the six starting stances on the animal hide. Two beams of light, one black and one gold, appeared in his eyes. Figures leaped from the animal hide and were continuously analyzed and imprinted by him.
Whether it was because of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, or because his talent was truly strong, the entire Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Technique wasn't as difficult as he'd imagined. He easily imprinted it in his mind after only half an hour of effort.
Although it was just memorization, it was already extremely rare for a child.
"It seems quite extraordinary, but why do I still feel like it's just a supplementary technique, specifically for enhancing the power of treasures!" Xiao Shi mumbled a couple of words and then threw the animal hide on the ground, continuing to flip through the remaining hides.
In fact, if the major sects of the upper realm knew of his ungrateful attitude, they would whip him to death.
You see, just those six stances alone were already incredibly profound, capable of explaining many profound meanings. If one were to delve into them deeply, they would be sufficient to benefit a person for a lifetime.
"The Hou Clan, the Luan Bird Clan, the Bifang Clan... they seem really strong... What is this, that it's at the very bottom?"
When he flipped to the last piece of animal hide, Xiao Shi frowned. This one was too tattered, and it recorded the Suanni Technique. The runes were blurred, almost illegible.
He felt something was off. The Suanni Technique wasn't weak, but it definitely shouldn't be on the last page. Even compared to the other divine abilities, it wasn't a trump card!
However, as his black-gold eyes scanned over it, wanting to examine it closely, the next moment, a sudden change occurred.
In an instant, his entire little face was dumbfounded, and he threw the animal hide out behind him.
"Pshh... pshh... pshh!"
Silver sword qi crisscrossed, shooting out wildly, seemingly capable of cutting through anything, breaking through anything!
At the critical moment, a phantom crown appeared above Xiao Shi's head. On it, the character "Emperor," flowing with nine-colored immortal light, flashed just once. All the silver sword qi was shattered by an invisible wave after the character appeared, as if it could crush all eternity, shatter the river of time.
Under the illumination of the strands of nine-colored immortal light, in Xiao Shi's eyes, there was an indescribable sense of desolation and calmness, as if, under those eyes, the birth and death of everything in the world was irrelevant to him, only he remained eternally unchanged.
It was as if he were the only Emperor in the world, watching the eons pass by, the world's destruction, remaining always the same, unmoved!
After a while, Xiao Shi recovered, and his big eyes showed confusion, "Am I Xiao Shi? Or am I Xiao Shi Emperor? Or perhaps, am I Tian Ge?"
Then, he shook his head violently. Some things seemed to be blocked by an invisible force, and he couldn't remember who he was at all!
But the little brat's thoughts weren't that complicated. It was very simple; if he couldn't remember, then he wouldn't. Instead, he looked at the sheet of paper floating on the ground.
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